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Paste Magazine by Andrew Crump
Hunted doesn’t exactly rewrite the original tale, but it doesn’t have to. It just has to have teeth, and Paronnaud’s kept those canines sharp and savage.
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RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
There’s a better version of Hunted that either leans more into its surreal flights of fancy or settles into gritty, tense realism. Hunted gets caught in the middle.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Adding a fairy-tale cast to a generic horror setup is of no benefit to Hunted, Vincent Paronnaud’s unpleasant merger of slasher movie and survival thriller.
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The Guardian by Leslie Felperin
Thankfully, we only see glimpses of the footage of tortured women on the hideously believable nemesis’s camera, so ultimately the movie – just about – feels more like a critique of the character’s woman-hating mindset rather than a vehicle for it.
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Austin Chronicle by Richard Whittaker
It's a hodgepodge of wildly divergent narrative styles, from the mystical to the grisly and into the ridiculous.
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The half-hearted lean into “jokey” means that Hunted never gets under your skin and transitions into a visceral experience.
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Slant Magazine by Steven Scaife
Hunted intends to make a show of our desensitization to predator-prey relationships, but the greater purpose of its self-awareness never quite comes into clear focus.
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For all the big themes rustling around in Hunted, they lack the startling ferocity that develops on Eve’s face — for her, there’s nothing theoretical about this study of predatory male behaviour.